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US 8,561,564 B2Granted
Device and method for launching an underwater moving body
AssigneeAtlas Elektronik GmbH
InventorsAxel Brenner, Ralf Bartholomäus, Wolfgang Bünsch, Sönke Huckfeldt, Dirk Fuhrmann
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Abstract
A method and a device for launching an underwater moving body. In order to reduce the expenses arising from furnishing watercraft, a land supported deployment of underwater moving bodies in coastal waters using a launching device is provided with a land-based carrier system for transporting the underwater moving body and a corresponding land-based deploying system.
Claims13
A launching apparatus for launching an underwater moving body (4, 5) comprising:
- a land-based carrier system (2) for transporting the underwater moving body (4, 5), and
- a deployment system (8;
- 27;
- 43;
- 44;
- 52;
- 58) for land-based deployment of the underwater moving body (4, 5) into a coastal waterway (25, 28), wherein
- the deployment system (8;
- 44;
- 52;
- 58) has a cage (7) for holding the underwater body (4,5),
- the cage (7) has struts which surround the underwater moving body and the cage can be lowered into the coastal waterway, and
- the underwater moving body (4, 5) can be launched from this cage (7).
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